Using RetroPrecise Puppy 5.4.3 on my vye-S18 but Youtube video does not show/play and wondered if it was because I needed the Vye Linux drivers installed, one is a "Graphics_Video4Linux". I would like to install them anyway. The Vye has an AMD geode LX.

How do I go about installing them once they are downloaded? They are .tat.tar files.

If you really don't have libflashplayer.so then no amount of updating video drivers will get flash video to work. Do you have Get Flash Player under Menu Internet? If so use it to get the latest Flash and then try playing some youtube videos.

What I have done is changed the flashplayer version, removed the newer one and installed an older version in the list that comes up, this has improved it .

The video actually loads a video view now on youtube, extremely slowly buffering all the way on playback. 1gb ram on this Vye s18. I have turned of acceleration in the flash "settings" while playing back too but no improvement in playback.

Semme - What did you learn from the downloaded file, nothing worthwhile I guess?

About the driver- it has to be built, or, compiled. The old one I think was amd_drv.so. The newer one, I'll have to check, should be the xf86-video-geode driver. I kinda sense it supersedes the pkg from vyepc.

I also suspect it has to be compiled on a system with said hw- namely yours, not mine.

No guarantees any of this'll work mind you, but you'll need two pkgs in particular..

Both I think over a hundred mb's each, so, it depends on how adventurous you wanna get.

I have tried many linux distros on the Vye S18 and not one has worked without using xvesa.

Even with xvesa I had to drag boxes to the left so that they were legible, I was able to get the screen still (kept jumping around on the right side) and set the correct resolution.

Xorg does not let me set the correct resolution, far too big. When looking in the xorgconf file, it actually states 800x600 but seems not to take any notice of that. This is what ormally happens on this computer with linux.

Pup is on external usb stick, boot set for usb stick.

I am actually getting nearer being able to play youtube videos on XP than on Puppy at the moment. XP runs the video slightly more smoothly than Puppy although it is still nowhere near watchable.

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